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Genetic testing definition

What does Genetic testing mean? Genetic testing describes laboratory analysis of DNA to identify inherited variants. In legal practice it commonly arises in insurance underwriting, healthcare, employment and data protection. The term is descriptive rather than a statutory definition, though “genetic data” is regulated as special category data under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. United Kingdom (England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland): Use of predictive genetic test results in life and protection underwriting is governed by the Government/ABI Code on Genetic Testing and Insurance (a UK‑wide, non‑statutory code). Insurers: - must not require an applicant to undergo genetic testing; - must not request...

Personalised and precision medicine in the UK: technologies, ethics, data protection, and regulatory landscape for genomics, AI, DTC testing, pharmacogenomics, NIPT, CRISPR, mRNA immunotherapies, companion diagnostics, and market outlook

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What is personalised medicine

Personalised medicine has been part of clinical practice for quite some time. Clinicians have, to differing degrees, tailored care to individual patients using information gathered about them. Over the last decade and a half, however, the emergence of systems biology has markedly broadened its scope; in contemporary practice it depends on collecting as much data as possible about a specific biological system under study. The aim is to interpret these collected datasets in ways that enhance understanding of a living system and its pathologies, ultimately enabling targeted interventions that are responsive to an individual patient or to groups of patients. It is often characterised as care that is ‘custom‑made’, set against the more traditional, ‘one size fits all’ model. Although many cell therapies, gene therapies and other advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) are regarded as personalised medicines, the domain is wider and encompasses every step of the medical process, from start to finish, beginning with diagnosis—frequently molecular diagnosis using biomarkers—and concluding with targeted medicinal treatments...

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